Bringing the battlefield into American living room

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When watching the war over in Iraq and Baghdad, reminds me of the Vietnam war when the war was first broadcast to American people over the television. This left a salty taste in many American people about the war. No one was for the war that was happening over in Vietnam for the fact that many lives where being taken including innocent civilians over in Vietnam. When reflecting back to the war that just recently ended over in Iraq, there was plenty of protest going on in the United States stating that war was not the answer to every disagreement that the government has with other countries.Now when viewing images of children that are being killed due to a war oil or even over weapons that where not found yet america still decides to go to war.

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Journalism as Warmonger

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When reading articles in newspapers the editors must make sure the information is vaild and not a story that was created only by imagination that the writer has made up. When reading the fifth chapter about Journalism as Warmonger it speaks about theYellow Journalism that was created by Joseph Pulitzer who was going up against William Randolph Hearst in giving out newspapers first that will catch the readers attention. This is what lead to the Spanish-American War about making up stories in the articles that was being service to the people who read the stories that the citizens actually thought it was true. Little did the people know that the stories was only made up into beliving that what was being put into the Yellow Journalism were false stories only being printed to make sales against the other journalist. 



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 When you think of today news through the mass media I othen wonder about the information that is being giving to me if its actually telling the full true story of what is being put out there. Normally when listening to the news we tend to go by what is being told to us and going off of the story that's been given to us, yet when you start to investigate the story to find out what spark the cause its much deeper then what is being put out there. That's why I feel its very important for us to not only look for information in only one source, but also that we can receive the information from different sources that we do know what is liable.